Alejandra Marquez Janse
Alejandra Marquez Janse is a producer for NPR's evening news program All Things Considered. She was part of a team that traveled to Uvalde, Texas, months after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary to cover its impact on the community. She also helped script and produce NPR's first bilingual special coverage of the State of the Union – broadcast in Spanish and English.
Before joining the show as an intern in 2021, Marquez Janse was an intern for South Florida's NPR member station, WLRN. She is a proud graduate of Florida International University, where she studied journalism and political science.
Marquez Janse was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Just a few weeks into his second term, President Trump froze funding for programs that play a big role in Global aid. One of those programs is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS or PEPFAR.
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President Trump says he wants to buy Greenland and reclaim the Panama Canal. NPR's Juana Summers and Ari Shapiro compare their recent reporting from both locations.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., about what he's hearing from and discussing with U.S. allies during the Munich Security Conference.
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A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and how does that ripple out to the global economy?
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On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order to rename what was known for more than 400 years as the Gulf of Mexico. On Monday, the change officially took effect.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Jorge Quijano, former Panama Canal administrator from 2012 to 2019. He disagrees with the Trump administration's assertions about Chinese influence over the Panama Canal.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Col. Bree Fram, an openly transgender member of the U.S. Space Force, about President Trump's calls to remove transgender service members from the military.
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This week the Trump administration suspended the country's refugee resettlement program, leaving thousands of people – who had been cleared and scheduled to come to the U.S. – in a limbo.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Bishop Mariann Budde about her homily Tuesday, where she made a plea directly to President Donald Trump.
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TikTok has become its own economy, with thousands relying on it for their businesses. We talk to some small business owners about the impact a potential ban will have on their bottom lines.